Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
Director: William Karel
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Beulah Borr as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Salman Rushdie as Self - Writer |
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Ruhollah Khomeini as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Abdullah al Ahdal as Self - Imam (archive footage) |
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Isabelle Adjani as Self - Actress (archive footage) |
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Ali Khamenei as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Hitoshi Igarashi as Self - Translator (archive footage) |
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Bono as Self - Musician (archive footage) |
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Kamal Kharazi as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Donald Trump as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Barack Obama as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Larry David as Larry David (archive footage) |
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Lin-Manuel Miranda as Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage) |
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F. Murray Abraham as Ayatollah (archive footage) |
| Directing | William Karel | Director |
| Sound | Olivier Militon | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Adam Leibovitz | Producer |
| Production | Jean-François Lepetit | Producer |
| Camera | François Reumont | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Pauline Pallier | Editor |
| Sound | Emmanuel Milhau | Sound Engineer |
| Production | Fiona McLaughlin | Researcher |
| Art | Julien Condom | Graphic Designer |
| Editing | Mathilde Delacroix | Color Grading |
| Sound | Philippe Sorlin | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Philippe Sorlin | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Claire Davanture | Production Director |
| Writing | William Karel | Writer |